{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The Ethical Nag","provider_url":"http:\/\/ethicalnag.org","author_name":"Carolyn Thomas","author_url":"https:\/\/ethicalnag.org\/author\/czthomas\/","title":"News flash: smartphone users obsessively check their devices","type":"link","html":"New research: \"What concerns us here is that if your habitual response to boredom is that you pick up the phone to find interesting stimuli, you will be systematically distracted from the more important things happening around you.\"  No wonder, given that this study reports that smartphone users will check their phones every 10 minutes or so, and up to 34 times per day. ","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/carolynthomas.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/cell_phone_etiquette-large.jpg?w=300&fit=440%2C330","thumbnail_width":null,"thumbnail_height":null}